The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-01-08
THE HONE DOCTOR.
N'orms of Vertigo.

characterized by sudden feeling of
dizziness. and at times by actual falling
sometimes surrounding objects seem to
the person attacked to whirl around, or
the floor, or ground, to rise up. The
fact that vertigo is often one of the
earlier symptoms of apoplexy frequently
fills the person with terror. lest that
deadly disease may be impending. But
in the majority of cases it has no such
sgnifclnces, not even rs indicating a
tendency.
One form of vertigo, very persistent
form, is due to irritation of certain
nerves within the Utmost chamber of the
ear, the so-ealled labyrinth This j.
what Dean Swift suffered from so long,
and, to the physicians of his day, so un-
accountably. One of its symptoms is
temporary deafness. This distinguishes
it from all other FORMS
Another form connects itself mainly
with the eye. Of this kind is the feeling
Of giddness which some people have
when, being on train at rest, another
-. train slowly passing deceives them into
the idea that it is their own train which
has begun to move. The giddiness oc-
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true s nsations become confused together
In the case of the near-sighted the in
ternal muscles of the eye, often being I'M
duly trained in their efforts to converge
the eyes sufficiently for the sight OF near
object, suddenly give way, when the
eve balls turn out and the letters run into
each other. This is accompanied with
sfeelingof giddiness, eyeache, headache,
and sometimes nausea.
A third form connects itself with some
slight disorder of the stomach, and oc-
ours most often when the stomach is
empty. There is sudden swimming in
the head, objects seem to revolve aud the
person totes and perhaps falls.
A fourth form is purely of nervous ORR
gin, and is due to nervous exhaustion,
It may lie caused by intellectual over
strain, longcontinued anxiety, physical,
excesse, or the immoderate use OF to-
bacco, alcohol or tea. Elc7ated posi-
tons may bring on an attack 1t rarely
results in actual falling, but oftener in
the feeling of Being about to fall
The Nose, and Nervous Diseases.
The cavity of the nostrils is in part
formed by certain so-called ''tnrbinated'
swelling cut, like a top-bones, COW
cred with very sensitive membrane,
particularly liable to be temporarily ir-
Iitatel by dust, cold and odors, or to
become thickened by morbid growth.
Some point in it is the seat and centre of
the sncezing paroxysm.
Of late years it has been found to be
the seat of many reflex neuroses-nerv-
Gus ailments at a distance from the dis
turbing cause. Such-and some of them
Of the most distressing kind-had long
been treated without success, before the
true source of the trouble was SUSPECTED.
One was hay fever.
DR.. Beard ten years ago proved it to
be necrosis, or nerve affection. 1t is
now shown to be dependent on a special
excitability of the nerves of the nasal
membrane which covers the turbinated
bones. The excitability may be tempo
rary or permanent. In the latter case,
the membrane is generally swollen and
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Of like origin is one form of asthma,
which is permanently cured by removing
the disturbing cause-perhaps polypus
within the nasal cavity.
The same cause is true of some coughs
of spasmodic character.
Many cases of eye trouble, character
lied by smarting, intolerance of light,
inability to use the eyes in reading, may
be wholly due to the same cause. The
following is case: Said the young
lady, when l rise in the morning, my
forehead and eyes pain me very much.
Ny eyes feel dry, and it is hard to open
them to the light" The nasal men,
brane. in this case, was found to be
swollen, so as to obstruct the passage.
The removal of the swelling was fol-
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